Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blumberg spent two years research and $2,000 in perfecting the new design, which consists of three different instruments, showing horizontal motion in north-south and east-west direction, as well as vertical motion...
Tired Light. Other critics question the "red shift" as a measure of velocity. The usual explanation of the reddening effect is that the luminous body's motion away from the observer "pulls out" the light waves, making them longer (redder) than normal. But since red light contains less energy per unit (photon) than violet light, Bubble's critics suggest that light may lose some of its energy in traversing space, thus turning redder. It may start out from a distant nebula as young, vigorous violet and arrive at the earth after millions of weary years as old, tired...
...crowds had jammed every available inch in the old House caucus room. Motion-picture and television cameras stood tripod to tripod, electrical cables matted the floor like jungle vines. Both crowds and cameramen had come with a single purpose: to watch James Caesar Petrillo, the union boss of all U.S. musicians, dropped into the legislative meat grinder and publicly reduced to scrapple...
...example, it required a slow-motion camera to discover that Sonja sometimes did not cleanly complete her Axel Paulsens (a revolution-and-a-half, taking off from one foot and landing on the other): she disguised the last part of the turn so expertly that the people never saw the difference. Sonja put on a tremendous show. While she performed, her businesslike father made sure everybody knew it by bustling about handing out autographed, postcard-size pictures of the champion. So far, Barbara Ann is a mile behind Sonja in showmanship...
...often that the producers of a motion picture dare to probe mercilessly into the validity of assumed Christian concepts, and therefore it is hardly surprising that although "Black Narcissus" finds a deeply religious answer to its own questions, American religious groups have unanimously blasted it. The picture places a group of Anglican nuns in a remote part of the Himalayas, where Western morality and religion simply do not exist. Their convent has once been a local emperor's harem, their patron is the conscience-stricken emperor, who pays his subjects to go the convent, and the nuns are a group...